Taco Tuesday

1. I was stationed in SoCal at Camp Pendleton in the early 90’s. Robertitos was THE go to place for chow. The rolled taquitos with guacamole and sour cream and a carne asada burrito? Damn fine eating son!!

   • Once you’re addicted, it’s tough to accept inferior Mexican food. I know…boy, don’t I know.

   • Addicted indeed. See the comments over at LSP’s about lunch at Los Verdes. It was a Tuesday, but I am a sucker for good chile rellenos, so had that with a chicken enchilada, rice, and beans.

     I couldn’t tell you the last time I was in a Taco Bell, but it was the last time. Seemed like they had cheaped out on their stuff–bigger tortillas with less filling. I do like their taco sauce and we buy it at the store. Never had much tolerance for condiments that bite back, however I seem to be slowly acclimating here in Texas.

     • I too like Taco Bell’s sauce – mild, green, hot. But I’m with you. They cheaped up and I don’t go there anymore. LSP has a number of great Mexican food joints within easy striking distance. MRSLL cooks chili rellenos for me at home. Not bad for a gringa.

       • It’s true, there’s a fair few good places here for Mex food. And now I want to go to Karen’s, which doesn’t sound very Mexican but weirdly is. Hmmm.

         • We have one decent place here for Mexican food, The Inca, several inferior “Hip/Trendy Mexican Cuisine” places, and a couple of places we haven’t tried yet.

           Not real big on Mexican food that “bites back”. I prefer Hunan-Style food for that.

2. Burgers yesterday, taco’s [appropriately] today…VM is now my go-to menu blog. Gordon Ramsey’s got nuthin’ on you…”Mirage Kitchen”? “Virtual Kitchen”?

   Have not determined how anyone with half a brain thinks the Biden/Harris ticket – both doing less campaigning than HRC (’cause she KNEW the win was in the bag), deserve more than anything above dog catcher? Must be toxic brain-fog brought on by over-wearing of face-diaper “re-breather’s”.

   • I AM BEING SERIOUS.

     Would you elect Joe Biden to be the dog catcher in any town in America? First, he’d likely be humping the mutts, but that aside…

     • Those os us on the right side of the good-evil chasm should be serious as a heat attack, this guy is so bad news he’d never get anywhere near a dog, because, dogs know. But I’d rather his followers have some place to put him that doesn’t affect people if they insist on an elected position. That said, if I caught him doing a Toobin on a dog I might just have to let the air out of him.

       • They’ll sedate him in the basement until it’s time to end him. Get him off the meds so that he’ll have a clean tox screen and off him. Kamala will sit behind the Resolute Desk during all that time with handlers telling her what to read from her teleprompter, like a female Barack.

         • He may expire before the election…I have personally seen that look, chemicals can only keep the inevitable at bay for so long. Like Ginsberg, his handlers are hoping he hangs on for two more weeks, but Man plans and God laughs. Won’t matter, Trump will be re-elected.

         • I’m of the opinion that the Democratic Chinese masters will want Biden as President rather than Kamala.
           This laptop of Hunters has (reportedly) videos of Hunter having sex with minors. This would potentially be evidence of Rape and also constitutes creation and possession of child pornography. I believe that both of those crimes carry very serious punishments in China. That makes Hunters well being hostage to President Biden’s actions regarding China. That alone is reason not to vote Biden.
           We might see Kamala removed from the board to safeguard Biden.
           Food for thought.
           …For what it’s worth, I don’t see Hunter ever in a U.S. prison.

3. There is no real purpose for a ballistic missile other than to deliver a nuclear payload. None.

   And should anybody decide to fire off a nuclear tipped ballistic missile at another country, the aliens will not allow it. We’ve seen them stand down ballistic missile facilities before, and they can do it any time they wish. Nothing we can do about it, either.

   Accordingly, I am not overly concerned about who develops better and gnarlier ballistic missiles: they all will be under alien eyeballs (or whatever the alien equivalent to eyeballs would be), and as long as I keep my chin strap of my tin foil hat buttoned, I have no worries.

   It’s great to be me.

   And to further bolster my credibility with you, LL, I like the original crunchy tacos straight out of Taco Bell, one pack of mild sauce on them. Best taco available on the face of the earth – who could argue with all of this?

   • The only way to find out if you’re right about the aliens sounds like a tough test to run.

     • It’s time to test the theory with China, Fredd.

       Taco Bell is kosher Mexican food.

       • Read the Taco Bell ingredients.
         * Soy nuggets instead of meat.
         * Soy flour instead of corn flour.
         * Soy in the sauces.
         And soy in the soda pops.

         Is soy responsible for cancers and diabesity?

         • See, they are concerned for your health, taste be damned.

       • I would wager that China has already figured my theory out. The aliens seem to be uninterested in conventional weapons, however, and hence the enormous investment by the ChiComs in battleships, submarines, artificial islands, things of that nature.

         • Is Senator Dianne Feinstein’s driver handing out in your neighborhood?

   • Okay, Fredd…
     I was with you…right up until the “Taco Bell” claim.
     I am now forced to question your logic and reasoning on all topics!
     “Best taco available on the face of the earth”…???
     Next, you’ll be claiming that the lizard people HAVEN’T taken over the world governments!
     \sarcasm

     • OK, I will confess. Taco Bell tacos are tasty, but I may have been exaggerating their world wide appeal. I don’t care what’s in them. Soy this, soy that. They still taste good. I just can’t think of another taco I ever ate that was superior, but then again I don’t get out much.

       I like Twinkies, too. And Cheez-Whiz. And I can’t leave Double Stuff Oreo’s off this list. All good stuff.

       But I will go to my grave ranking Whataburger as the best burger joint that God ever put on the planet. And don’t give me any of this In-N-Out Burger nonsense, I will have none of it…

       • Whataburger does a really good job with their hamburgers. I can’t lie about that. They’re not up to Hodad’s (San Diego) standards, but they’re excellent.

         • Never had a Whataburger, apparently I am seriously missing out.

         • I’m kind of partial to Red Robin burgers.

4. The Biden graphic. Appropriate song line came on – “if only”.

   • I know.

5. As one of my son’s friends said to me some years ago, if the taco comes with shredded cheese it’s not Mexican. With that said I like both street tacos and Taco Bell tacos!

   Hypersonic anti-ship missiles. Seems to me you find out if they are a danger the morning you lose several aircraft carriers … or you don’t.

   • I have had cojita cheese on tacos in Mexico but yes, there is the uncomfortable thought that it was just put on there for the gringos.

6. There’s limited elk opportunities here in Kansas. Only so many permits available. Deer season is coming though and we’re getting a lot of people at the range checking zeros or sighting in their deer rifles. Still getting a fair number of AR newbies as well. We have bobcats here but I seldom see one. The coyotes were putting on a real concert the other night though.
   I had tacos for supper last night. Chicken was the protein and preferred sauce is medium hot.

   • The tacos sound delicious. I wouldn’t have thought there were enough elk to hunt in Kansas.

     • There are a couple small herds notably around Ft. Riley and at the Cimarron National Grassland in the SW part of the state. About 20 permits per year are available.

7. Tacos might have been Cultural Appropriation once, but we took them as reparations one of the times we conquered Mexico.

   -Kle.

   • As is our right. Some would take gold, but we chose tacos. Still, they are delicious.

8. I can do fish tacos but I am not a big taco fan. I would much prefer a carne asada burrito with peppers, onions, and cheese.

   • You have to go with your gut T2. Literally

9. Walleye fish tacos are the bomb!

   • The fish has to be cooked well, Brig. I’ve had them and the fish always seems dry. I didn’t cook the fish, though. They can be cooked too long, and it ruins them.

10. “Does eating tacos constitute cultural appropriation?”

    I’ve never understood the concept. Must be too old and dense to grasp the nuisances. Isn’t appreciating other cultures as sign of respect? Admiration? Is refusing to eat Haggis and Lutefisk a rejection of my ethnic inheritance?

    Being socially correct in today’s environment is so difficult.

    • I’d think that you’d HAVE to eat Lutefisk if you plan to enter Odin’s corpse hall when you shuffle off this mortal coil.

      As to eating the odd taco, I don’t think that Odin or Thor would hold it against you.

      • Unless you must eat lutefisk on a regular basis, and claim to enjoy it, I already qualify. Now, Norwegian fiskaballs are wonderful!

        • I’ve never eaten a fiskaball.

          • Similar to Rocky Mountain Oysters, only halibut or cod. Anything fried in fat (or “fit” as the Danes would say) can be made edible. I refuse to purposely have Lutefisk because it’s nothing more than reconstituted snot.

11. Funny thing about hypersonic, there’s not a lot of time for guidance changes. Now a non-hyper missile going hyper in it’s terminal stage does make sense. But a 100% hypersonic hit-a-moving-target missile? Um… yeah… maybe with a nuke warhead.

    Now, a hypersonic deep penetrator? That’s combining a hella lotta kinetic energy with whatever bang the round is carrying. But if you’re going that far, why not just drop them from space and let gravity do the work for you?

    • There are a lot of classification caveats to anything dealing with the details of hypersonic flight, as there should be. I know that the US has been working on it for a long time and that they will be deployed both by the Air Force and Navy in the near future (including a slot in the rotary launchers on destroyers). My sense is that they boost during cruise, but I don’t know if they impact at speed, or if they maneuver terminally.

12. I love a good street taco and I’m with you, LL. Like some bite back.

13. Oh yeah! LOVE El Indio! Right off Washington St. Great food, reasonably priced, and they liked military personnel there! Hypersonics have an ‘interesting’ test history, not always covered in glory…so to speak. 🙂

14. I don’t know if any of The Clan here got an Elk tag this year. I’m sure I would have heard about it. “We” got two tags last year, and they both bagged an Elk, so we’re fixed for Elk burgers and steaks.

    The people who hosted the birthday party on Sunday are avid hunters. They have a Bobcat they bagged some years ago that was turned into a rug. I thought it was a pretty big cat, but he assured me it was medium sized.

    If that one was “medium”, I wouldn’t want to run across a big one! But then everything I’ve read said you’d never know you were being stalked until you met St. Peter…..

15. I sat out elk so that one of my group could take his son. So far they have bagged 2 and still a couple of days to go!
    I’ll have to be content with going for deer in a couple weeks.

16. All one has to say is tacos and the comments hit epic numbers.

    • They are sort of their own food group.

17. Best tacos I ever had were at the Phoenix Airport from two grandmas with a cart. The ones I make are my second choice.

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